Presentation from CNI Fall Member meeting Dec 2011. See: http://www.cni.org/events/membership-meetings/past-meetings/fall-2011/

1. Integrating Local Expertise into
Virtual Libraries and Discovery
Systems
Simeon Warner (Cornell University Library)
describing work mostly of other people, the two key teams being:
CuLLR team Discovery and Access,
● Adam Chandler Integration Layer Team
● John Cline ● Simeon Warner
● Jeremy Cusker ● Glen Wiley
● Dianne Dietrich ● Rick Silterra
● Michael Engle ● Keith Jenkins
● Holly Mistlebauer ● Jon Corson-Rikert
● Jim Reidy ● Mira Myhre
● Marty Schlabach ● Dianne Dietrich
● Leah Solla ● Dean Krafft
simeon.warner@cornell.edu, Fall CNI Membership Meeting 2011-12-12

2. photo: oldtasty @ flickr,, http://www.flickr.com/photos/oldtasty/11137571

3. Finding aids: The old way

4. photo: Editor B @ flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/editor/148825841

8. Experience with virtual library 1.0?
● Specialized lists considered useful
● Very painful to update
(~ 3200 hand entered and updated items for the
Physical Sciences Library)
● Does not leverage information in catalog
(search either local items or whole catalog)

9. CuLLR data flow and components
CuLLR = Curated List of Library Resources

10. First stage is general...
PLOP = Persistent Library Object Pages

11. ...and then for each virtual library

15. Expectations for virtual library 2.0?
● More functional as can relatively easily define a
large subset of items in the catalog as relevant
● Less painful to update. Significant effort to
minimize manual work updating
● May want ability to add items not in catalog
● Don't yet know how similarly different virtual
libraries will use CuLLR

17. Centralized Discovery and Access
Facilities at Cornell
● Goal is to provide “one search box” as a
starting point for searches over all items
● Recent decision to purchase Summon
● Roll out first as article search replacing
EBSCOhost (January 2012)
● Expect to integrate catalog and other sources
(e.g. eCommons) but not everything

22. Approach
● Include what we can and what works in
Summon (expect at least articles, catalog, IR)
● Use additional result panes as necessary
● Create system that gives overview with links to
more specialized searches
● Surface local resources and local expertise
● Enable semantic queries

23. Integration
Layer

24. Open question
● How do we use information from disciplinary
virtual libraries in the central discovery and
access system?
● Inherent tension between local and global
● Won't know user area initially, might infer likely area
from query/results
● How do we deal with possibly conflicting information
about one resource as “used” in multiple virtual
libraries?

25. Multiple panes vs one result set
Panes One result set
● Easier to implement ● Simpler to understand
● Shows space of possible ● Uniform interface for all
results things
● Avoid trying to rank apples ● More efficient use of
and oranges together screen real estate

26. Questions?
Me:
● Simeon Warner <simeon.warner@cornell.edu>
Contact for CuLLR:
● Holly Mistlebauer <hlm7@cornell.edu>